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Re: gEDA-user: If you also think the PCB lower-case letter 's' is ugly, here's a replacement



On 11/22/10, Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> How hard would it be to make use of the freetype library to handle all
>> vector-based fonts?  I imagine the font outlines could be converted to
>> line elements fairly easily... ?
>>
>
> pcb's fonts are special:  they are a single line wide.  When you need
> the smallest letters that a given silk process can print legibly, you
> want those single-line fonts.
>
> For larger fonts, freetype would be great, and save us the
> machinations of creating the text in inkscape or something and
> importing it with pstoedit.

Discuss also using QCAD fonts, please.

Cheers,
Ineiev


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